By considering the possible political readings of Ke$ha, I am engaging in the task of taking femmes seriously and seeing where that leads. 

My approach also takes inspiration from the writing of Gayatri Spivak and Saba Mahmood. Although they write about women in India and Egypt to reconsider feminist notions of agency, my approach considers Ke$ha not as a way of eschewing or ignoring her privilege as a white woman living in the United States, but as a way of considering figures such as femmes and pop stars who have been presented as lacking agency or self- awareness in feminist theory.